Word: milles
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Legal Aid Bureau handles cases of all types although E. S. Reid said that experience has shown that most cases are concerned with domestic relations, landlord and tenant and wage disputes, and petty torts. In order not to be used as a divorce mill, the Bureau has all cases dealing with domestic cases investigated by the Cambridge Welfare Union before acting upon them...
...right to live a decent life. Their strike is specifically the outcome of a ten percent wage out, forced upon their employers by weight of competition. The demands of the workers to return to the old wage were met by curt refusals, on the part of the mill owners. The workers' delegates were summarily discharged. The workers struck and now demand recognition of their union, sanitary working and living conditions, a 44-hour week, and a ten percent increase over the old wage...
...only are the women forced into the mills but also the children of working age are found applying for work. New Jersey law allows employment of children at 14 years of age provide that they attend "continuation school" two half days a week for two years. This rule is invariably followed. Boys and girls at this age enter the mill and do machine work almost equal to that of adult operatives receiving from $8 to $12 for a 48-hour week. They are employed on either day or night shifts. From early childhood these children have little to anticipate except...
They were strikers. Until a few weeks before they had got their living in the Botany Worsted Mills over behind the wall. When they quit work the usual endless controversy had begun about better living conditions, about more pay. It was not very lucrative to work in the Botany Worsted Mills of Passaic, N. J. Some workers got $9 a week. More experienced ones got $15. The strike had been coming for a long time, and when it came they were quite ready to listen to the taut harangs of Strike Leader Albert Weisbord (a graduate of the Harvard...
Next day an airplane whirled and swooped over Passaic. It contained a cinema cameraman. Two armored cars lumbered through the streets. They shielded reporters. In steel helmets, with gas-masks strapped to their shoulders, strikers paraded past the mill, two by two. The Passaic Chamber of Commerce asked Governor Harry A. Moore of New Jersey to "mediate" the strike. An inventor, one Edward Moore, offered Mayor McGuire of Passaic his "centrifugal riot gun, which shoots 4,000 shots a minute and is effective at a mile and a half." The offer was not accepted. The police...